I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

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Ok all drama aside I can't help feeling like LISP is the best language you could have in this context because it's verbose, unambiguous, highly encapsulated and old school not to mention hardcore.

Anyone using a spreadsheet in emacs would be well versed in this sort of paradigm and I personally love lisp because it's how we cut our teeth in functional programming in university.

Not to mention it's perfectly suited to list processing..